View of Krakow
Created from within the circle of the school of Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519) and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (died 1494)
Placed in the Book of Cronicles (Liber chronicarum) by Hartmann Schedl (1440-1514), published in the publishing house of Antoni Koberger in Nuremberg in 1494.
This coloured view comes from a later edition in German Buch der Cronicken.
It is alleged that Konrad Celtis (1459-1508) was the author of the drawing which was the basis for the woodcut. The view is something between a street map and a panorama of the city, it renders a spatial arrangement of Krakow, Kazimierz and Kleparz, according to the actual location, without reconstruction of the real location or the appearance and details of the buildings.
1493, Nuremberg
Coloured woodcut, woven paper
Historical Museum of Krakow, ref. no 1591/VIII